Preliminary Guide to the Robert O. Easton Collection
Preliminary Guide to the Robert O. Easton Collection, ca. 1911-1990s [bulk dates 1940s-1990s]
Collection number: SBHC Mss 6
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by Kirsten A. Tambo; latest revision D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Aug. 6, 2007
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
- Natural Resources (Cachuma, Water)
- Wilderness
- Women's Issues
- Miscellany
- Articles, shorter works, contributions, book reviews, and technical/military writings and reports (arranged alphabetically by title). Box 20.
- Monographs / Longer Works. Boxes 21-68.
- Black Tide (1972) / Oil Spill Files - incl. articles, bibliographies, correspondence, documents and reports, environmental movements and agencies, historical and background material, oil industry files, press releases, research notes, and photographs.
- Bullying the Moqui, editor with Mackenzie Brown (1968)
- California Condor: Vanishing American, with Dick Smith (1964)
- China Caravans (1982)
- Collected Stories of Max Brand (1994)
- Guns, Gold, and Caravans (1978)
- The Happy Man (1943; 50th anniversary ed. 1993)
- The Hearing (1964)
- Life and Work [UCSB oral history] (1988)
- Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones, with Mackenzie Brown (1961)
- Love and War (1991)
- Man in the Middle (1996; unpublished?)
- Max Brand, the Big Westerner (1970)
- Max Brand's Best Poems (1992)
- Max Brand's Best Stories, editor (1967)
- One Writer's World. Introductory essays and selections from earlier writings (unpublished)
- Saga of California Series. Includes numerous files on the Chumash Indians, as well as Blacks and the Spanish in California
- Vol. 1: This Promised Land (1982)
- Vol. 2: Power and Glory (1989)
- Vol. 3: Blood and Money (1998)
- Vol. 4: Love and Destiny (unfinished)
- Other related files - incl. research files on the Chumash Indians
- U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory - technical reports, et al, 1960s
- Western Stories and Other
- ROE = Robert Olney Easton
- Easton [Robert E.] Collection, ca. 1893-1968. Mainly papers and ledgers re Easton's business dealings, especially the Sisquoc Ranch Co., central coast of California. (SBHC Mss 55).
- Easton [Robert O.] Oral History. Recollections of Easton [son of Robert E. Easton] re his youth on the Sisquoc Ranch and the real life experiences he used in writing his novels. Also, his Harvard University days during the Depression, where he edited The Harvard Lampoon, his military service in World War II, and the relationship he had with his literary mentor and father-in-law, western author Max Brand. (OH 9).
- Sisquoc Ranch Photograph Album, ca. 1899-1900. Approximately 76 b/w images and handwritten captions, mainly of Sisquoc Ranch [Rancho Sisquoc], Santa Barbara County, California, including the land, buildings, work such as branding cattle, and the Lucius E. Greene and Vicente Castro families. (Wyles SC 588).
- Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. Materials from Easton, primarily relating to the California condor.
- Texas Tech University, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. Robert Olney Easton Papers. Contains photocopied manuscript (ca. 1963) of Part Seven of The Book of the American West, entitled "Guns of the American West."
- University of Arizona Library Special Collections. Papers relating to Robert O. Easton's Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones (Collection Number AZ 313).
- University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Frederick Schiller Faust [aka Max Brand] Papers (BANC MSS C-H 69). Much of Easton's work involving Max Brand, his father-in-law, is housed at the Bancroft Library.
- University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center. Robert Olney Easton Papers (Coll. No. 02833). The collection contains correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and other materials concerning his life and literary career. Also materials relating to Fred Meyer Schroder.
Series I: Biographical/Personal
Scope and Content Note
Awards, Honors, Tributes
Bibliographical
Biographical information about ROE - Who's Who, articles, and other
Book Report
Coat of Arms
Contemporary Authors submission
European Diary (photocopy), 1937
Events
Family
Robert E. Easton (father)
Joan and Ellen (daughters)
Faust, Frederick [Max Brand; father-in-law of ROE] - copies of correspondence, to/from ROE, 1941-1943
Harvard
Lampasas, TX
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Sisquoc Ranch: The Forgotten Land - 28 b/w photos (taken by Dick Smith?)
Sisquoc Ranch Photograph Album - transcript of an interview of ROE, by UCSB oral historian David Russell, re analysis of the photos [Wyles SC 588]
Speeches and Talks
Teaching Credentials
UCSB
UC Extension - Education XBII: The History of Education
World War II
Zaca Lake - 20 b/w snapshots, re barbecue and ranch, 1914
Miscellany
Series II: Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Correspondent Files
Scope and Content Note
Authors Guild, Inc., 1970s
Bloodworth, Bill, 1995-1997
Bottoms, James A. (Bud), 1972-1984
Cady, Howard, 1968
Callahan, Joe, 1970
"Central America" Shipwreck, 1990-1992
Community Environmental Council (CEC), 1992-1993
Contemporary Authors, 1990-1991
Explorers Club, 1979-1983
Fallout Shelter, 1961
Farley, G. M. (ed. of Zane Grey Collector), 1968-1975
Fox, David L., 1988-1999
Gale Research, 1993
Haslam, Gerald (Gerry), 1992-1997
Hetzler, Rev. Leo, 1991-1999
Homeless, Inc., 1990
Huntington Library, 1983-1984
Levine, Allan, 1985
Loynd, Ray, 1969
Lujan, Manuel, Jr. (U. S. congressman), 1984
McMillan, Ian I., 1985-1989
Maeda, Brian T. (film producer), 1986-1987
Martinez, Leo (Santa Barbara politician), 1974-1976
Meredith, Scott, 1968-1970
Millar, Ken (author, aka Ross Macdonald), ca. 1970-1996
Myrick, David, 1989, 1993
National Public TV, 1993
Nature Conservancy, 1970-1971
Nolan, Bill
1964-1999
Best Poems
Pearlman, Nancy (environmental broadcaster), ca. 1985-1991
Rice, Richard B., 1992-1998
Rivers, Bob, 1990-1991
R.O.M.E. Investments, 1971-1976
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1986-1994
Santa Barbara Citizens for Environmental Defense (SBCED), 1989-1990
SKS Productions, 1968-1969
Smith, Gibbs, 1989-1996
South Dakota Review, 1986-1991
University of Nebraska Press, ca. 1986-1996
Wilderness Society, 1968-1987
Publishers and Agents
Benjamin, Ben (Hollywood agent), 1964-1970
Brandt & Brandt (ROE's first agent), 1942, 1947
H. N. Swanson, Inc. Agency (Hollywood), 1961-1971
Harper's Magazine, 1963
Littauer, Kenneth (Littauer & Wilkinson), 1964-1971
Olding, Dorothy (Harold Ober Associates), 1970-1986
Reader's Digest, 1978-1990
True (magazine) - Fred Schroder articles, ca. 1954-1962
University of Oklahoma Press, 1967-1989
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1940s
1950s-1960s
1970-1974
1975-1978
1979-1983
1984-1990
1991-1996, n.d.
Series III: Issues / Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
Natural Resources (Cachuma, Water)
Wilderness Files - includes the following:
General
Citizens Planning Association of Santa Barbara
Community Environmental Council (CEC)
Cuyama Group
Dick Smith Wilderness
Forest Service
Litigation
Lompoc Groups
Los Padres - Irwin and Pat
Los Padres Patrol
Marshall, Gene
Mining
Phosphate Mine
Strip Mining
Motorbike Ordinance
Mountain Bikes
Murphy, Sen. George
Santa Barbara Environmental Defense Center (SBCED), 1970-1980s
Santa Maria Group, 1960s
Skofield Park
Vehicles
Wilderness Society
Miscellany
San Rafael
Women's Issues
Miscellany (smaller files)
Brand, Max
Chase, Pearl
Condors
Environment
Historical Sites
Mission Canyon Association
Planning - Population Growth
Ranches - Ag. Preserve
Rancho Sisquoc
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Series IV: Writings and Research Files
Scope and Content Note
Articles, Shorter Works, and Contributions to Other Works
Scope and Content Note
"Back to the Future" - about the Chumash, Santa Barbara News Press, Apr. 22, 1990
"Banker Clayton's Interest," Collier's, Dec. 9, 1950
"Blowout," in Tales of Santa Barbara, comp. by Steve Gilbar and Dean Stewart, 1994
"Bonaparte McPhail," Collier's, Aug. 26, 1944
Book of the American West - editor in chief Jay Monaghan, "Guns Section" by ROE, 1963
"Border Town," Holiday, Dec. 1950
"The Bull Artist Who Saved the Buffalo," True, Sept. 1964
"The Cave Tigers of Hong Kong," True, Jan. 1953
"The Condor Controversy: An On-the-Spot Report," by Dick Smith and ROE, Animal Life, 1965
Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series - v. 14 incl. ROE, 1991
"The Death of Malunga," by Fred Meyer Schroder and ROE, True, July 1953
"Death of the Bullet-Proof Bandit," by Fred Meyer Schroeder and ROE, True, July 1957
"Dynamite's Day Off: A Story," The Atlantic, May 1942
"An Eagle in the Sky," Lincoln-Mercury Times, Jan-Feb. 1950
"Early Catlle Drives," La Reata (Santa Barbara Coral), Fall 1984
"Escape with a Mint," by Fred Meyer Schroder, as told to Robert Easton, True, [1950s?]
"Everybody Wins in Suez," [unpublished? n.d.]
"Farmer Stiles," Holiday, Dec. 1948
"Faro," Collier's, Nov. 6, 1948
"Flossie and Arnold," [unpublished?]
"The G.I. Farmhands of World War II," South Dakota Review, Spring 1991
"The Happiest Man: A Story," Atlantic, Nov. 1942
"He Lassoed Africa," True, May 1963
"Italian Heartland," Lincoln-Mercury Times, Mar-Apr. 1952
"Jim Gildea," Gildea Resource Center, Community Environmental Council, Special 25th Anniversary Section [of newsletter?], Spring 1995
"Lampasa Revisited," re ROE's visit after his post-WWII experiences as founder of the Lampasas Dispatch newspaper, Lampasas Record, May 16, 1974
"Lampasa, Texas," Ford Times, [ca. 1949]
"Lampoon," Harvard Class Album, 1938
"The Last Sea Otter Hunt," True, [ca. 1954]
"Legend of Shorm: Involuntary Invocation to the Rain Gods," Esquire, Sept. 1956
"Locked Gates and Homesteaders," Los Padres Notes, Fall 1988
"The Man Who Went Back," Collier's, May 8, 1948
"Midland School for Boys," Coast, Feb. 1940
"Oil Island" - outline, 1957
"Pyramids of Shensi," by Fred Meyer Schroder, as told to Robert Easton, True, [ca. 1953]
"Quick and the Cat," Argosy, May 1952; also Magpie, May 1953
"Return of the Great Raptor," Santa Barbara Magazine, Sept/Oct. 1993
"Right Turn in the Rockies," unpublished, 1963
"Rincon Island No. 1" - outline, 1957
"The River," Collier's, Jan. 29, 1949
"The Santa Barbara Earthquake: Three Episodes and an Epilogue," Noticias, Spring 1990
Santa Barbara News-Press - Articles
"Santa Barbarans Cite an 11th Commandment: 'Thous Shall Not Abuse the Earth'," New York Times Magazine, Oct. 12, 1969
"School for Spartans," The Coast, Feb. 1940
"Sea Lion Champ," Nation's Business, Apr. 1952
"Sierra Club Beginnings," Sierra Club Bulletin, Dec. 1969
"Sierran Anecdote," Harvard Lampoon, Dec. 5, 1936
"The Silver Bullet," [unpublished? ca. 1940s]
"The Snake Dance," The Californians (also includes other correspondence with editors), vol. 11, no. 1, [1994?]
"The Soul of Frederick Faust," Westways, June 1978
"Strike at Seventymile," Fred Meyer Schroder and ROE, True, July 1955
"Unforgettable Frederic Faust," Reader's Digest, Dec. 1985
"The Voice of Robert Easton," from UCSB oral history, The Californians, vol. 11, no. 6, [1994]
"War Boom in the West," about the growth of the aviation industry in southern California, The Coast, [Feb. 1940]
"When the United States Invaded Russia," [unpublished?], n.d.
"Wild Camel Hunt in Tibet," Fred Meyer Schroder and ROE, True, Dec. 1955
"Wild Challenge," Argosy, Feb. 1952; revised Oct. 1994
"The Wind of Pelican Island: A Story," The Atlantic, Oct. 1942
"Women and Dynamite," The Atlantic, July 1942
Miscellany
Book Reviews of Other Works
"Early Stuff" - excerpts and early versions of unidentified works, n.d.
Letters to Editors
Monographs / Longer Works
Black Tide / Oil Spill Files
Black Tide (1972)
Correspondence
Delacorte Press File
Manuscript pages
Manuscript - charts
Publicity and Promotion
Reviews
Manuscript - typescript (in clamshell box)
Notebooks
Working Notebook, Mar. 20-June 2, 1969
Working Notebooks (2), June 2-Nov. 25, 1969
Working Notebook, Nov. 26, 1969-Jan. 28, 1970
Working Notebook, Jan. 28, 1970 - ?
Working Notebook, Jan-Dec. 1970
Working Notebooks (Books I-III), Jan. 28-Nov. 23, 1970
Working Notebooks (Books IV-VI), Jan. 28, 1970-Jan. 28, 1971
Symposium, Dec. 17, 1970
External Notes, 1969
Reference Cards, n.d.
Oil Spill Research Files
Anniversary of Santa Barbara Oil Spill (articles)
January 1979 (10 year anniversary)
January 1984 (15 year anniversary)
January 1989 (20 year anniversary)
Articles (magazine and newspaper - about oil)
1969 Jan-May
1969 June-Dec.
1969 Dec.
Undated, ca. 1969
1970
1971-1972
1973-1981
1982-1983
Undated
Life - article and reactions
Bibliographical and Reference Materials, 1958-1977
Calendars of Events, 1965-1969
City Council, Santa Barbara
Oil Drilling - Councilman Alan Eschenroeder's Statements, 19 Dec. 1969
Oil drilling operations and relocations - Santa Ynez Project, 1972-74
Oil Leasing, County Study of 1967
Oil Spill, Santa Barbara Channel, 1969-1970
Platforms "C" and "Henry" - Environmental Quality Advisory Board, 1971
"Protection of the Public Interest in the California Coastline," parts 1 & 2 - presented to the State Assembly, Dec. 1969
Sanctuary (Oil), 1966-1971
Santa Barbara Channel Advisory Committee, 1968-69
U.S. Geological Survey of the Channel Region, 1969-1970
U.S. House of Representatives Interior Committee hearing on Channel Oil Legislation, 14-15 Sept. 1970
Unproductive Oil Leases, 1968-1970
Conflict of Interest, 1969-1971
Correspondence - Incoming and Outgoing
1955
1969-1970
1971-1973
1984
Undated
Documents and Reports
AD HOC Committee - Report of the AD HOC Committee: State Regulations and Inspection Practices, Oil and Gas Operations and Oil Pollution, June 1969
Allen, Alan A. - Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 20 May 1969
Bagnis, R., et al. - Problems of Toxiants in Marine Food Products, ca. 1970
Brown, Lt. George, III - Santa Barbara Channel Oil Pollution Incident: On-Scene-Commander's Report, 2 vols., 1969
Burton, John L. - Press Release, 11 June 1969
California Coastline Conservation and Development Commission - Summary of Provisions of Sieroty-Dunlap Coastline Legislation, ca. 1973
California Department of Fish and Game - Interim Report: Santa Barbara Oil Leak, 15 Dec. 1969
California Department of Fish and Game - Progress Report on Wildlife Affected by the S.B. Channel Oil Spill, 28 Jan-31 Mar. 1969
California Department of Fish and Game - Second Progress Report on Wildlife Affected by the S.B. Channel Oil Spill, April-May 1969
California Legislature - Assembly Bill No. 80, June 1969
California Legislature - Assembly Joint Resolution No. 2, Jan. 1970
Citizens Committee for the Protection of San Miguel Island Seals - Observations, June 1969
City of Santa Barbara - Report on Offshore Drilling Incident: Santa Barbara Channel, ca. 1969
Clyde, George H. - Letter to President Richard Nixon, 30 Dec. 1969
Clyde, George H. - Statement to State Senate Natural Resources and Governmental Efficiency Committees, 18 Feb. 1969
Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District - Local Notices to Mariners, Nov. 1969, Jan. 1971
Commonwealth Club of California - Confidential Study Section Minutes, 25 Sept. 1969
Connell, J. H. - Submission to the Royal Committee on Oil Exploitation on the Grea Barrier Reef, May 1971
Council on Environmental Quality - Environmental Quality, Aug. 1970
Council on Environmental Quality - National Oil and Hazardous Materials Pollution Contingency Plan, June 1970
Council on Environmental Quality - Toxic Substances, Apr. 1971
County Recorder, Alameda County, CA - Death Certificate of Richard S. Peterson, Sept. 1969
Cowgill, Carol - Union Oil Co.'s Leaky Lease, 1969
Cranston, Alan - U.S. Senator Alan Cranston Reports to Californians, Apr-May 1972
Curry, Robert R. - Report to the Subcommittee on Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works, U.S. Senate, 24 Feb. 1969
Curry, Robert R. - Statement to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials and Fuels of the Interior Committee, 20 May 1969
Dillingham Corporation - Summary of Systems Study of Oil Spill Cleanup Procedures, 1969
Doumani, George A., and Price, Nancy C. - Blowout in Santa Barbara Channel: Background and Chronology, 10 Aug. 1970
Drinkwater, Barbara, et al - Santa Barbara's Oiled Birds, ca. 1970
Eissler, Fred - Sierra Club Statement in Support of S.1219, before the Senate Subcommittee on Materials, Minerals and Fuels, 20 May 1969
Eissler, Fred - Statement of the Sierra Club before the Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, 25 Feb. 1969
Enjay Chemical Corporation - Corexit 7664 Oil Dispersant: A Report on Research, Development and Performance, May 1969
Environmental Quality Advisory Board of Santa Barbara, CA - Report of Activities of the Environmental Quality Advisory Board for the Period July 1969-Dec. 1970, 1971
Ferry, W. H. - Statement to Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs, 24 Apr. 1969
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Toxicity of Marine Organisms Caused by Pollutants, 1970
Ford Foundation - Exploring Energy Choices: A Preliminary Report, 1974
Foster, M., et al - Santa Barbara Oil Pollution, 1969: Final Report Dealing with the Early Stages of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1969
General Research Corporation - Estimates of Surface Pollution Resulting from Submarine Oil Seeps at Platform A and Coal Oil Point, Nov. 1969
Gilmore, George A., et al. - Systems Study of Oil Cleanup Procedures Vol. 1: Analysis of Oil Spills and Control Materials, Feb. 1970
Guardian Chemical Corporation - Polycomplex A-11, n.d.
Hearst, Peter J. - Statement for the Record of the Senate Hearing on S.1219, Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials and Fuels, May 1969
Le Boeuf, Burney J. - Oil Contamination and Elephant Seal Mortality: A "Negative" Finding, 1970
MacGillivray, W. Don - Press Release No. 20, 3 June 1969
MacGillivray, W. Don - Reports from Sacramento, 1969
Mead, Walter J., et al. - The Economic Cost of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1970
Mead, W. J., and P. E. Sorensen - Estimates of the Economic Cost of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (table), Dec. 1970
Mead, W. J., and P. E. Sorensen - A National Defense Petroleum Reserve Alternative to Oil Import Quotas, Aug. 1970
Meed, W. J., and P. E. Sorensen - The Principal External Costs and Benefits of Marine Mineral Recovery, 23 April 1970
Miller, Alan S., and Phil Farnham - Ecology and Politics Manual, 1970
Morrison, Harry - Statement of Western Oil and Gas Assoc. Regarding S.1219 before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials and Fuels of the U.S. Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee , 20 May 1969
Muskie, Edmund S. - Opening Statement by Senator Muskie: Hearings of the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, Senate Committee on Public Works, 5 Feb. 1969
National Academy of Sciences & National Academy of Engineering - Waste Management Concepts for the Coastal Zone, 1970
New York State Senate and Assembly - Proposed Amendment to Article 14 of the Constitution, Feb. 1969
Nixon, Richard - Message to Congress regarding Santa Barbara Channel, 1970
Office of Science and Technology - Report of Special Panel on the Future of the Union Oil Lease, 1969
Orr, Robert T. - The Gray Whale Crisis of 1969, 1969
Pacific Northwest Laboratories - Review of the Santa Barbara Channel Oil Pollution Incident, 1969
Pecora, W. T., and Russell G. Wayland - Notes on the Pecora-Wayland Letter, ca. 1970
People's Lobby - Summary of the "Clean Environment Act," ca. June 1972
Portland Harbor Pollution Abatement Committee - Information Booklet: Oil Spills, 1968
Potter, D.S. - Memo to the Steering Committee of California Advisory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources, 18 June 1969
President's Panel on Oil Spills - Offshore Mineral Resources: A Challenge and an Opportunity, 1969
President's Panel on Oil Spills = The Oil Spill Problem, 1969
Rains, Omer L. - Senator Omer L. Rains: Report to the 18th District, Summer 1975
Reed, David - Testimony, ca. 1969
Residents of Santa Barbara - Citizens' Suit against the Department of the Interior, 2 July 1969
Sanders, Howard - Testimony before the Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee, 22 July 1970
Sanders, Dr. N. K. - The Santa Barbara Oil Spill-Impact on Environment, ca. 1969
Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce - The Santa Barbara Oil Story, ca. 1969-1970
Santa Barbara Citizens Commission - Civil Disorders, 15 Sept. 1970
[Santa Barbara] S.B. Oil Control Coordination Committee - Rules and Procedures of the S.B. Oil Control Coordination Committee, 11 Nov. 1969
Secretary of the Interior & Secretary of Transportation - Oil Pollution, Feb. 1968
Sharp, Robert C. - Comments by R. C. Sharp on Draft Environmental Statement No. 74-90, 6-8 Feb. 1975
Sharp, Robert C. - Remarks by Robert C. Sharp before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. Senate, 18 Apr. 1972
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Annual Progress Report 1968, 1 Feb. 1969
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Annual Report 1969, 1 Feb. 1970
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Annual Report 1970, May 1971
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Event Information Report: Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1969
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Event Notification Report, ca. 1968
Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Information about Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, ca. 1969
Straughan, Dale - Statement at Dept. of Interior Hearing on Proposed Leasing Offshore Western Louisiana, 18 July 1970
Sun Oil Co. - To Colonel Norman E. Pehrson, Sept. 1969
Sylvester, Arthur G., et al - Earthquake Swarm in the S.B. Channel, CA, 1968, 1970
Teague, Charles M. - From the Office of Charles M. Teague of California, 28 Mar. 1973
Teague, Charles M. - Teague Environmental Report, Oct. 1973
Teague, Charles M. - Washington Reports, 1969-1971
U.F. Chemical Corp. - Information Regarding "Oil Spill Fluff," ca. 1968
Union Oil Co. - 1970 Annual Report, 1971
United States Coast Guard: Treasury Dept. - Rules of the Road: International Inland, 1965
United States Comptroller General - Investigation of the Handling and Control of Petroleum Products in Southeast Asia, 28 July 1970
United States Congress - Congressional Record, 19 Jan. 1970; 25-26 Jan. 1972
United States Congress - The Economy, Energy, and the Environment, Sept. 1970
United States Congress - Federal Land-Use Legislation, 1975
United States Congress - H.R. 4148, 8 Oct. 1969
United States Congress - Public Law 91-224, 3 Apr. 1970
United States Department of the Interior - Notices to Lessees and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas Leases in the Outer Continental Shelf, Pacific Region, 1970
United States Dept. of the Interior - Plain Facts about Oil, 1963
United States Dept. of the Interior - U.S. Petroleum through 1980, 1968
U.S. Departments of Interior, Transportation, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfare, and Office of Emergency Planning - National Multi-Agency Oil & Hazardous Materials Pollution Contingency Plan, 1968
United States Geological Survey - Agenda for Public Hearing on Draft Environmental Statement, Oil & Gas Development in the S.B. Channel..., 25-27 Aug. 1975
United States Geological Survey - Department of the Interior News Releases, (Feb. 1969-July 1970)
United States Geological Survey - "Environmental Impact Statement," 1971
United States Geological Survey - Geology, Petroleum Development, and Seismicity of the Santa Barbara Channel Region, CA (2 copies with marginalia), 1969
United States Geological Survey - Incidents in the Outer Continental Shelf Resulting in Injury and Property or Environmental Damage 1953-1971, 1971
United States Geological Survey - Permanent Effects of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 17 Aug. 1970
United States Geological Survey - Recorded Oil Spill Incidents Involving over 2000 Barrels, 1970
United States District Court, Central District of CA - Complaint for Damages Resulting from Oil Well Blowout, 2 June 1969
U.S. District Court, Central District of CA - County of Santa Barbara et al. vs. Walter J. Hickel, Sec. of the Interior et al. - Affidavit of John R. Fraser, ca. 1969
U.S. District Court, Central District of CA - Order Affirming Decision of the Secretary of Interior and Dismissing Complaint, Jan. 1973
United States House of Representatives - Oil Spillage - Santa Barbara, CA: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Flood Control and Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors of the Committee on Public Works , 14 Feb. 1969
United States House of Representatives - Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970, 1970
United States Senate - Congressional Record, 25 Apr. 1969
United States Senate - Congressional Record: S-10467, 12 Sept. 1969
United States Senate - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, March-April 1969
United States Senate - S.1075, 18 Feb. 1969
United States Senate - Santa Barbara Oil Pollution: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs , 19-20 May 1969, 13-14 Mar. 1970, 21-22 July 1970
Water Pollution - 1969: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works, Part 2: 5-6 Feb., 1969
Water Pollution - 1969: Hearings..., Part 3: 24-25 Feb. 1969
Wayland, Russell G. - Memo to Director: Santa Barbara Channel Report, Dec. 16-21, 1969, 31 Dec. 1969
Western Oil and Gas Association - California Gray Whales, ca. Apr. 1969
Western Oil and Gas Association - Testimony re S.1219, May 1969
Wilcox, Dr. Howard A. - The Impact of the Big Santa Barbara Oil Blowout, 1970
World Life Research Institute - Curriculum Vitae, 1971
Miscellany, ca. 1967
Earthquake Data, 1941, 1968-1971
Environmental Movements and Agencies
Coalition on Oil, 1 June 1972
Community Environmental Council: A New Beginning (formerly January 28 Committee), ca. Mar. 1970
Council for Planning and Conservation Newsletter, June/July 1969
Defenders of Wildlife News: Letter to Dick Smith, 1969
Environmental Defense Fund, ca. 1967
Environmental Quality Advisory Board, 1970
January 28 Committee, 1970
Massachusetts Audubon Society Newsletter, April, May-June, 1969
McGraw-Hill's Air & Water News, 10 June 1969
Planning and Conservation League, 1970
Public Interest Briefs, Winter 1975
Royal Bank of Canada, Monthly Letter, Feb. 1969
The Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights, [1969?]
Santa Barbara Oil Symposium, 17 Dec. 1970
Save Our Bays Association, 1972
Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference, Inc., Dec. 1969
Seashore Environmental Alliance, July, Aug. 1974
Sierra Club Oil Group, no date
South Central Coastwatch Newsletter, Oct. 1975
Survival Times, July, Sept. 1970; Mar. 1971
Wilderness Report, Feb., Sept. 1969; Dec. 1974
Wilderness Society - The New Conservation
Wildlife Protection Patrol
Miscellany, 1969-Sept. 1971
Historical and Background Material
1911
1948
1950-1951
1954
1956-1970
Undated
Oil Industry
Articles, 1969-1971, 1977
Humble Oil and Refining Company Materials, 1970
Union Oil Co. Materials, Feb-Aug. 1969
Other Companies, 1970
Miscellany, ca. 1969
Press Releases and Related Material, 1969-1971
Research Notes and Manuscript Fragments (mostly undated)
Birds
Brown, Lt. George, III
Costs of the Spill
Environmental Movements and Agencies
Evaluation
Fish
Government
Labor
Media
Outline (story of the spill and its aftermath)
Personalities
Political
Science and Technology
Smith, Dick
Symposium, April 1969
Tankers
Toward the Future
Miscellany
Photographs - Black and white prints
Easton, Robert - Mammals mostly (14 prints)
Easton - Miscellany (21 prints)
Ptaszynski, William - Birds mostly (23 prints)
Photographs - Black and white negatives
Scope and Content Note
Animals and Birds (42 strips)
Beaches (14 strips)
Divers (26 strips)
Elk Hills Petroleum Reserve #1 (2 strips), Sept. 22, 1973
Godfrey, Arthur (2 strips)
Harbor and Clean-up (11 strips)
Hill House (73 strips)
Life Magazine - general photos (2 strips)
Life Magazine - trip to San Miguel: Animals and birds (15 strips)
Museum Exhibit (1 strip)
1969 Aerial Views (50 strips)
Oil Pick-up Devices (16 strips)
Old Rigs at Ellwood Beach (6 strips)
Old Summerland Oil photos (15 strips)
Platforms (39 strips)
Pre-Oil Ocean (10 strips)
Protesters (3 strips)
Yannacone, Victor - EDF Lawyer (5 strips)
Miscellany (73 strips)
Bullying the Moqui - Robert Easton and MacKenzie Brown, eds.
Re Charles Lummis and Moqui Indians - reviews
California Condor - by Dick Smith and Robert Easton
Typescript draft and reviews
China Caravans (rev. ed. of Guns, Gold, and Caravans)
Copy marked up by ROE and reviews
Collected Stories of Max Brand
Guns, Gold, and Caravans
Manuscript drafts, reviews, and agreement with Capra Press
The Happy Man
The Hearing (1964)
Life and Work (UCSB oral history with David Russell)
Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones (1961) - by ROE and Mackenzie Brown
Love and War: Pearl Harbor through V-J Day (1991)
Man in the Middle
Max Brand, the Big Westerner (1970)
Max Brand's Best Poems, editor (1992)
Max Brand's Best Stories, editor (1967)
One Writer's World
Typescript autobiography about ROE's life and writings
Saga of California Series
Scope and Content Note
Vol. 1: This Promised Land (1982)
Vol. 2: Power and Glory (1989)
Vol. 3: Blood and Money (1998)
Vol. 4: Love and Destiny (unfinished)
Other related files
Alpha Files
Character Outlines
Rough Notes and Outline
Research Files - incl. Chumash
U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California - technical reports, other documents and articles, 1960s
Western Stories and Other
Series V: Oversize
Newspaper articles re ROE's father, Robert E. Easton
Oil Spill - matted, b/w enlarged photos
Awards
Magazine articles and miscellany
Series VI: Audiovisual
Audiocassettes
Robert Easton author of This Promised Land on KCRW radio, Jan. 25, 1983
Robert Easton interviewed by Michael Turner KCSN radio, Apr. 28, 1983
Robert Easton interviewed by Nancy Pearlman KMGG Environmental Directions, July 3, 1983
Robert Easton reminiscing about author Kenneth Millar, July 14, 1983
Videotape (VHS)
Love and War: Pearl Harbor Through V-J Day, Robert and Jane Easton reading from their book, ABC network television, Home Show, Dec. 6, 1991